Includes bibliographical references.

Liberty machine -- Setting goals in cybernetic systems -- Learning strategies, memories, and individuals -- Cerebellum: a substrate for list-processing in the brain -- How a bug's mind works -- Model of the brain's hippocampal computer -- Neuromime nets as the basis for the predictive component of robot brains -- Simultaneous performance of twenty-five different tests per minute in a centralized cybernetic clinical laboratory -- On the use of examples in adaptive systems -- First steps toward a model of the vertebrate central nervous system -- Robots in the home and industry -- Cybernetics, life, and gene action -- Knowledge-transfer problem and its contribution to the environmental crisis -- Environmation -- Systems approach in ecological systems of simulation -- Model for pollution-behavior interactions. Included in this volume are sixteen papers presented at the symposium under the headings "General cybernetics," "Artificial intelligence and robotics," and "Ecological cybernetics.